CaseOval1968

Gulf of Mexico, LA, Gulf of Mexico

Name: UFO sighting — Gulf of Mexico, LA, Gulf of Mexico
Start: 1968-09-01
Location: Gulf of Mexico, LA, Gulf of Mexico

I would like to know if anyone else from the USCG Venturous has reported this.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

Duration parsed: 750s, a plausible sighting length
Moderate witness text (78 characters)
Location could not be geocoded
No other reports from this city within 3 days

When: 1968-09-01
Where: Gulf of Mexico, LA, Gulf of Mexico
Shape: Oval
Duration: 10-15 min.
Geo: —
Slug: oval-over-gulf-of-mexico-la-1968-4c5693

In context

Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico shows up 1 times across the archive.
1 reports came from Gulf of Mexico in 1968.
In the 1960s, 6.6% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.

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